Abstract
Set against dominant ableist discourses of sexuality, engaging in sex in the face of physical
disabilities seems not only impossible but also highly improbable. Long-standing myths and
discriminatory stereotypes around the sexuality of people with disabilities are commonplace,
in part due to the sheer unknowns about the sexual lives and practises of people with
disabilities. In recent years, members of the disabled community have emerged professing to
thriving sex lives, and one avenue that provides evidence of not only the existence of disabled
sexuality but also the multitude of possibilities within disabled sexuality is in the burgeoning
genre of disability pornography. While disability and sex merge in pornography, there is
limited interchange in the scholarship on disabled sexuality and pornography. In this chapter,
I aim to address this privation by examining the intersection of pornography and disabled
sexuality. I conclude that disability pornography not only has positive spinoffs, such as
enfranchisement of disabled sex, but also negative upshots, which include the fetishisation of
disabled sexuality...